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CyberLink Power DVD Ultra Unlocks the Blu-ray Beast in NVIDIA Graphics Cards

Click to viewBesides that pesky little required DRM update, there’s a neat trick hiding underneath CyberLink’s just-announced new version of its PowerDVD Ultra playback software: It can now unlock the power of NVIDIA’s next-gen PureVideo HD VP2 architecture, which gooses Blu-ray and HD DVD playback to the extreme. This means that for the first time,…

Tech News Charlie White May 17 '07

Future GPS Systems to Display Road Warnings and Subway Info

Better 3D city views and more detailed road warnings are just some of the things we can expect from the next crop of GPS systems. Tele Atlas is working on giving GPS units more info its users can use. Don’t own a car? Pedestrians will also be able to take advantage of the new units,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 17 '07

Every Exclusive Halo 3 Zune Photo

I’m really bad at Halo. But I can see all the Halo-themed videos, photos, and songs on the Special Edition Zune going a long way toward making this Zune pantsworthy for the fanboys. Here’s a 135-shot gallery of all the artwork (photographed, not ripped, out of respect for the Zune team’s hard work.) Click to…

Gadgets Brian Lam May 17 '07

LG.Philips’ New Full Color OLED Is Flexible, Still Not Coming Soon

This is the new LG.Philips 4-inch active matrix OLED. According to LG.Philips, it’s the first OLED that is flexible and can show 16.7-million colors all over its 320 x 240 pixels. And is “at 150μm, it’s barely thicker than a human hair.” The technology is nothing like their recently announced color electronic paper. This one…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 17 '07

Sony VAIO T 10th Anniversary With LED Backlighting and Solid State Drive

At last, here’s the new MacBook Mini, complete with LED-backlit screen, optional 32GB Solid Storage Drive 8-hour battery life and Core 2 Duo processor in a slim 2.68-pound 0.88-inch glorious black design. It looks like at the end it wasn’t announced last Tuesday, like the rumorlosersmongers predicted. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-mini-pushed-back-to-2008-256430 Oh, and it comes from Sony. With…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 17 '07

Jet Black Digital Showerhead Can Pause H20

The fact that the Grohe Ondus faucet-ware is digitally controlled and has a clock is secondary to the fact it comes in a Batman black finish, and that it has a pause button for the shower, which can bring the water flow back at the same temperature you left it at. Useful for answering the…

Tech News Brian Lam May 17 '07

Robot Fights in Osaka, Where Referees Talk to Things Without Ears

Dum-da-duuuuuuum! I wish I had some fabulously portentious-sounding music to play you, complete with booming timpani, to announce some mano a mano between a bunch of Robotos and their crazy machines. Oh, hold on. Play that video and you’ll have it. This is a recent Robot Fight, which took place in Osaka between a bunch…

Tech News Ad Dugdale May 17 '07

LG Z1Pro Laptop is Sweet Like Chocolate

This is something that will have the Footballers’ Wives set squealing with glee—if they’re planning a trip to the Far East, that is. LG’s new Z1Pro laptop has been designed with Vista’s Sideshow in mind. The shiny black portable boasts a 2.5-inch display on the top cover, complete with touch-sensitive buttons à la, rather like…

Tech News Ad Dugdale May 17 '07

EV-DOize Your Mac Mini

Mac addicts: Have you been itching to get your mobile Mac Mini going with EV-DO, but despise the look of an external USB modem? Well, with a little bit of tinkering you can swap out your Airport card with an Expidite PCI Express Mini EV-DO Card. Surprisingly, this is a pretty simple mod, especially when…

Tech News Ben Longo May 17 '07

Hamster-Powered Paper Shredder Mark II

Tom Ballhatchet, of Hamster Paper Shredder fame, has gone on to develop a better model. The cage’s top and bottom are now matching in lipstick red, and there are slots for depositing food and water next to the paper slot. Gearing is internal, which makes us wonder about Hammy’s safety, but if you look carefully…

Gadgets Brian Lam May 17 '07

Fergie and Peter Petrelli Already Have Moto RAZR 2s

Just watch. Actually, this is a waste of time. So just watch 1:53 and then wait 20 seconds to see the RAZR 2. And the song isn’t too good, so turn the music down. Hmm…that’s not much of a sell. What did you expect, it’s 4 a.m. Fergie likes RAZR 2[YoutubeThanks Matias]

Tech News Brian Lam May 17 '07

Samsung 8GB Cell Phone Memory Card Will Let You Store All the Rocky Movies on Your Cell

Samsung says it has developed the world’s largest microSD memory card. At 8GB, the fingernail-sized card can store 2,000 MP3 files, 4,000 digital photos or around five DVD-quality movies. With a read speed of 16 MB/s and a write speed of 6MB/s, the 8GB memory card is one-and-a-half times faster than the Speed Class 4…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale May 17 '07

DIY Helio Ocean Ringtones

The Ocean costs around $300, so the last thing you want is to be nickel and dimed for your ringtones. Luckily those crazy kids over at Heliocity figured out how to turn your MP3’s into ringtones free of charge (it also works with MIDI or MMF files). Basically, it just involves renaming the file extension…

Tech News Ben Longo May 17 '07

Weener Kleener Soap Ring (SFW)

I don’t know what kind of world we live in where an inventor is coming up with a) new ways to shape bars of soap b) a device that increases the efficiency of me pulling on my weener for the sake of hygiene c) a package for said product with copywriting that displaces all my…

Gadgets Brian Lam May 17 '07

Crazy Video: 20 Ways Japanese Smartphones Do It Better

Symbian Japan has launched a campaign called Boo Hoo for You, where a talking octopus and piece of sushi remind us of just how bad we have it with plain old s60 handsets in the US. Camera phone? Remember this is a country with Wallet and Door Unlocking Phones. And here’s their list of twenty…

Tech News Brian Lam May 17 '07

Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)

In 1958 Arthur Radebaugh started the syndicated Sunday comic Closer Than We Think! It ran in newspapers until early 1963. The strip really epitomizes the optimistic brand of futurism so common in the post-WWII era. Below are a few great examples of this paleo-futuristic strip from the Chicago Tribune. Push-Button Education – May 25, 1958…

Tech News Matt Novak May 17 '07

Halo 3 Zune Box is Really, Really Nice

You already saw the Halo 3 edition Zune last Friday, but here’s the actual box. Noah was right: This thing is a work of art. https://gizmodo.com/first-pics-of-the-zune-halo-3-special-edition-259877 Photos of the exclusive Halo 3 content to come in a few minutes. Halo 3 Zune Pricing , Hardware, Crappy Video, and Box [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/halo-3-zune-up-for-pre-order-released-june-15-260801

Gadgets Brian Lam May 16 '07

New York in 1960 (1935)

This cover to the March, 1935 issue of Popular Mechanics purported to illustrate New York City in 1960. The image is featured in the book Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future. See also: Amphibian Monorail (Popular Science, 1934) Commuter Helicopter (1947)

Tech News Matt Novak May 16 '07

Japan’s Rin Standing Speaker Emphasizes Visual Quality Over Sound Quality

Not that we’re saying the Rin doesn’t sound good—there’s no way we can tell without hearing it—but it seems to us anything that looks this weird can’t be something audiophiles will want show off to their audiophile friends. The unit’s made from a combination of imported Italian marble and Japanese engineering, which is great on…

Tech News Jason Chen May 16 '07

Cellphone Strap Cellphone Charger in the Shape of an Eraser

Only Japan could have come up with this item: a cellphone strap that’s not only shaped like an eraser, but houses two AA batteries and is actually a phone charger. Unfortunately, the only phones that can be charged with this thing are from FOMA and SoftBank—both only available in Japan—but we’re sure somebody can come…

Tech News Jason Chen May 16 '07

CyberLink Power DVD Ultra Unlocks the Blu-ray Beast in NVIDIA Graphics Cards

Future GPS Systems to Display Road Warnings and Subway Info

Every Exclusive Halo 3 Zune Photo

LG.Philips’ New Full Color OLED Is Flexible, Still Not Coming Soon

Sony VAIO T 10th Anniversary With LED Backlighting and Solid State Drive

Jet Black Digital Showerhead Can Pause H20

Robot Fights in Osaka, Where Referees Talk to Things Without Ears

LG Z1Pro Laptop is Sweet Like Chocolate

EV-DOize Your Mac Mini

Hamster-Powered Paper Shredder Mark II

Fergie and Peter Petrelli Already Have Moto RAZR 2s

Samsung 8GB Cell Phone Memory Card Will Let You Store All the Rocky Movies on Your Cell

DIY Helio Ocean Ringtones

Weener Kleener Soap Ring (SFW)

Crazy Video: 20 Ways Japanese Smartphones Do It Better

Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)

Halo 3 Zune Box is Really, Really Nice

New York in 1960 (1935)

Japan’s Rin Standing Speaker Emphasizes Visual Quality Over Sound Quality

Cellphone Strap Cellphone Charger in the Shape of an Eraser

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